Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work evokes the clear vision of Ralph Ellison, the dizzying menace of Franz Kafka, and the crackling prose of Vladimir Nabokov.
At its center is a father who just wants his son to thrive in a broken world. But how far will he go to protect his son? And will he destroy his family in the process? This electrifying, hallucinatory novel is at once a keen satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. The darker Nigel becomes, the more frightened his father feels. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day.
In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body-if you can afford it. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed.
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